Where does it leave them in deed. I think I have mentioned numerous times 
that our company has received no notice from Melbourne IT regarding 
requirements, deadline dates etc.

As far as I am concerned it is irrelevant what ISP we use. I applied for 
the domain name registration myself (ie. I faxed off the application and 
made enquiries about it). Our ISP handled the delegation to his server 
but that is another matter.

We applied for a name and it was granted. I'm not sure of the full 
details of what Mr Elz has granted Melbourne IT but as far as we know we 
have NO CONTRACT with Melbourne IT and expect that they will leave our 
domain name alone.

The only response I have heard from Melbourne IT's ceo is that it is nice 
to get some rational responses from time to time.

Let me spell it out. We expect that our company be contacted by Melbourne 
IT if we have any obligations to them.

Wilson Fletcher
(wilson§mclachlan.com.au)

> 
> Had a conversation with one of our customers who holds a .com.au domain
> today and he was blissfully unaware of the renewal date for his domain (we
> had advised our .com.au customers by conventional mail of the situation and
> the renewal date imposed by Melbourne IT, but this organisation had switched
> from another ISP to us since then and thus didn't have details on record).
> 
> It was only through another matter that we came to discuss this point.  It
> got me wondering how many people actually realize what is going on.  What
> sort of communication has taken place between Melbourne IT and domain
> holders directly?  Its a difficult situation I know, the contact records for
> many domain holders may be out of date.  But the fact remains: if people
> aren't contacted by Melbourne IT and they have either fallen through their
> ISPs systems of notification (by moving or whatever) or their ISP for
> whatever reason doesn't feel obliged to do Melbourne ITs dirty work, where
> does that leave them?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Brett
> 
> ----
> Brett Caird		Chief Executive/Director
> brettc§bit.net.au	http://www.bit.net.au/
> Brisbane Internet Technology Pty Ltd
> "Its easy to be patient if you haven't got anything better to do."
> 
>